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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we can't find the money for after-school programs for middle school kids, we absolutely should get rid of TJHSST, IB, and AAP centers.  There is absolutely no justification for a magnet HS or these "extras" if we can't cover the basics for middle school kids.  [/quote]

At a minimum we should get rid of busses for choice programs like AAP Centers and TJ.[/quote]

Good lord- your kid didn’t get in, we get it, but this is getting boring as a retort at this point.  Think of something new. Maybe cutting all the coaches, or central office staff![/quote]

You post this same thing anytime anyone proposes getting rid of busses for AAP. Most schools offer AAP and most families keep their kids at their base schools. If they choose to send their kids to another school (just like if they sent them to language immersion or one of the arts schools), they should provide transportation. I get providing bussing for schools that don't offer LLIV, but if it's a choice, you should provide your own transportation.

- Mom who has had two kids go through the LLIV program and are doing great in middle school AAP (at our base school btw).[/quote]

I haven’t posted before, but I’m sure the sentiment that math and reading coaches and specialists at the county level are not really helping teachers or kids has been thought of before. Just as people keep complaining about AAP like it is a sink hole of money.  Frankly, i think it probably has kept more MC and UMC parents in the school system and it is the reason there aren’t robust private schools in the area.  Parents who are strivers can aim to get their kid in AAP and feel like they have achieved greatness in education and then they don’t move out of the district. FCPS would have had a brain drain long before this without AAP.

My AAP kid was at her home school and base middle school and doing fine, but the CONSTANT harping on AAP buses is crazy.

No one has said how much it costs to run, or how it compares to middle school after school activities, it is just harping because they don’t like the program.

Be creative, think of something new to cut because if you think this is going with the boundary changes, that will be an entirely different and perhaps uglier battleamong FCPS parents. [/quote]

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